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This dog was found near 82nd St and 97th Ave. Please call the SPCA if you know where the dog belongs or if you are the owner (leave your contact info twice). They will call you to arrange for pick up. Please have your ID with you. 250-785-7722

Due to unforseen circumstances, the following meetings are the only 2 currently active.
Thursday 8pm Salvation Army
Sunday 8pm Salvation Army
all others are closed until further notice.
you can also do online meetings at area78aa.org
Thank you

MEDIA RELEASE:
Sanctuary Health and community partners call in British Columbia to
waive the three-month wait and provide health coverage for uninsured people
Vancouver --- This afternoon, the Ontario government announced that they are waiving the three-month waiting period for Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) coverage and will cover the cost of COVID-19 services for uninsured people who do not meet the criteria for OHIP coverage. In wake of the ever-progressing pandemic, Sanctuary Health and community partners in British Columbia are calling on their government to do the same.
Before today’s announcement, British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec were the only provinces that enforced a three month wait period for people arriving or returning from outside of Canada. This practice has been a longstanding concern of Sanctuary Health as it disproportionately affects vulnerable communities.
Yesterday, BC’s Medical Services Commission announced that they will waive the Coverage Wait Period for those who are returning from
impacted areas and intend to stay in BC and for those that were
outside of the province for longer than the allowable period to
maintain MSP Coverage. This leaves important members of our community wondering if they’ve been forgotten, including:
Canadian babies born to parents without MSP coverage
Migrant workers who arrived just before the borders closed or potentially who may start arriving in groups soon
Newly arrived permanent residents in British Columbia
People who have lived in British Columbia for many years and have finally obtained permanent residence.
“We are hoping that BC will make a clear statement as Ontario has today. It would be unconscionable that in a public health crisis, valuable members of our community will be left without health coverage,” says Omar Chu of Sanctuary Health. “The three-month wait never made sense, and we are seeing the consequences
of it now.”
The waiting period places individuals in a limbo period, forcing them to delay seeking care until coverage is received, placing them and the broader community at risk. Sanctuary Health recently presented the Medical Services Commission a package advocating for the removal of the waiting period for all new and returning BC residents coming from outside of Canada, and for ensuring access to care upon arrival. The package had support letters from over 25 organizations including health care providers, unions representing health care workers, human rights organizations, and migrant groups.
Sanctuary Health’s call to remove the waiting period is a part of our broader push for access without fear – regardless of immigration status – to free, universal, and expanded healthcare. This call includes people who are undocumented, navigating the bureaucratic immigration system, international students, and people with implied status. In July 2017, the government began denying MSP coverage to people with implied status: people who applied for new work or study permits before the expiry of their previous work or study permits and are legally entitled to live and work or study in Canada.
“The current pandemic has broadly revealed what we have been arguing since we started,” Chu says.
“Health care is a human right and a just society ensures that we all
have it.”
Sanctuary Health is a grassroots community group that deploys a wide range of strategies to advocate for access to services for all regardless of immigration status or documentation. Read the full Three Month Wait package at http://www.sanctuarycityvan.com/three-month-wait/
Contacts: Omar Chu,
778-883-6627
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British Columbia Health Coalition · 3102 Main St, 302, Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories, BC V5T 3G7, Canada

Resident Brings MADD Canada Message to Fort St John
Fort St John, BC – MADD Canada is pleased to announce Melissa Dunn as its new volunteer Community Leader in Fort St John, BC.
In the role, Ms. Dunn is part of a nation-wide network of volunteers who represent MADD Canada and deliver its message and programs to local communities.
“Our Chapters and Community Leaders undertake a diverse range of activities within their communities to help achieve MADD Canada’s mission of stopping impaired driving and supporting the victims of this violent crime,” said MADD Western Canada Regional Manager, Tracy Crawford. “They truly are the heart and soul of our organization. We are proud to welcome Ms. Jones to our amazing and dedicated volunteer team.”
As a new Community Leader, Ms. Dunn will focus much of his initial efforts around public awareness and education initiatives and building partnerships with stakeholder and community organizations with similar goals of ending impaired driving.
Crashes involving alcohol and/or drugs are the leading criminal cause of death in Canada. On average, approximately 4 people are killed each day in crashes involving alcohol and/or drugs.
“These deaths and injuries are completely preventable. They can all be avoided if people do not get behind the wheels of their vehicles impaired,” said Dunn “I want to be part of the solution and I am confident that Fort St John will be supportive of the effort to stop these senseless tragedies from occurring on our roads and in our community.”
About MADD Canada
MADD Canada (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) is a national, charitable organization that is committed to stopping impaired driving and supporting victims of this violent crime. With volunteer-driven groups in more than 100 communities across Canada, MADD Canada aims to offer support services to victims, heighten awareness of the dangers of impaired driving and save lives and prevent injuries on our roads.
For more information, please contact:
Melissa Dun at 1-800-665-6233 ext 365 or FSJMADD@gmail.com

FSJ Basketball Drop-in will return to the North Peace High School on Wednesdays and Sundays from 7:30-9:30pm. Starting on Wednesday September 11, this is how the two nights will be run:
Wednesdays will be an adult only drop-in with a $2 fee. Players will be assigned to teams of 3, 4 or 5 (depending on numbers) with team pinnies available. Teams will play a slate of games with a Finals at the end of the night. Game balls to be provided and pinnies returned at end of night to be washed.
Sundays will be an open drop-in with both gyms available to game play. Bring your own ball, no drop-in fee.
Updates will be advertised here and on the FSJ Basketball 2019-20 Facebook page.

New exhibit on now at the Fort St. John North Peace Museum!
Before roads, rivers were the highways of First Nations and early settlers. Birch bark canoes allowed First Nations to travel swiftly. Steamboats could travel over 500 miles along the Peace River from the chutes near Fort Vermillion to gates at Hudson’s Hope. This exhibit looks at over twelve boats, steam and gas powered, that used to navigate up and down the Peace River.
Watch a slideshow of archival photographs, and listen to the sounds of steamboats. See what a dining table on the D. A. Thomas may have looked like. Try on a life jacket and see how it compares to one from over 100 years ago.

The Fort St. John North Peace Museum and the Alaska Highway Community Society have worked together to produce a book that compiles research and stories collected during the process to nominate sites along the Alaska Highway Corridor as a National Historic Site. Written by Julie Harris and Frank Edwards, Signposts and Promises: Canada and the Alaska Highway is a beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated large-format book that celebrates the Alaska Highway’s extraordinary natural and cultural landscape.
This book is now available at the Fort St. John North Peace Museum and is priced at $29.95.

Our special exhibit this fall, winter and spring looks at the various tasks women undertook in the North Peace from typical women’s jobs like nurse or teacher to less typical jobs such as trapper, interpreter, and politician. It also looks at a variety of handicrafts from mukluks to embroidered tablecloths made by local women. This is one of our largest exhibits with twenty-two interpretive signs spread out around the museum. These purple signs are integrated into many of our permanent exhibits, showing that women in this area were involved in all different kinds of work inside and outside this home. Marjo Wheat and Heather Sjoblom curated this exhibit. This exhibit is on display at the museum until May 31, 2019.

Email us from your registered email address to helpdesk@fsjnow.com and please provide us your name and contact phone number in case we need to call you in order help you. We are working on the email slow to receive issue as well as any potential issues with the password update or profile update forms.
We are also working on adding all the latest posted classifieds to show up at the bottom of the main classifieds page in the format shown for the 5 latest ads that appear at the bottom of the main page of the site under the events.
This has been a very trying time for you and us and we are very sorry for the inconvenience, but it will be good soon and once you navigate around and start using the new system we think you will find it very easy and user friendly. Lots of security controls added to prevent spam/scammers from posting on the site as well.
Sorry for the inconvenience and we thank you for your patience
Email Issues:
Most likely due to the slow server state at the moment but if you have not received an email you sent for changing your password or registering within 10-50 minutes, please call us at 250-262-1508 or email us at helpdesk@fsjnow.com
Some accounts receive the emails into their inbox and some into their junk/spam folder. Please make sure to check your junk/spam folder just in case they went there.
Update your password from an old account by using this form Forgot Password.
When it rains it pours...

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1. Select the "Login" button at the top of the page
2. At this point, you can try logging in with your email address and password from the old site. If this works, skip down to step #7, if you were unable to login, continue to step #3
3. Select the "Forgot my password" link below the login form
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6. You should be redirected back to the site with a form to enter your new password two times. You can click on the eye icon on the right of each form field to see what you are entering. Hit submit when you are done. You should see confirmation the change was successful.
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8. At this point, you are greeted with a profile update form. This must be completed.
9. Complete the form and submit to update your profile on the new system.
This information is for an individual person only.
If you had an account setup for a company, you need to change the information to be for yourself. You will be able to add a company to your profile after this step has been completed and be able to post ads using the company profile information in categories that allow it with a different contact email address and phone number.
Full name is required on your account, but you will be able to select how to show your name with every ad posted in the classifieds by either:
Full name, first name and last initial, first initial and last name or by username it will be up to you.
A phone number is also required on your account. You will be able to post classified ads showing this number, not show a number or show a completely different number for each ad posted, again it will be up to you.
For the city field, it should auto-populate with your location city and province, it takes a few seconds (this will work better once the domain is transferred and we setup the https). If it does not type in the city you live in using this format and case lettering e.g. Fort St.John, BC
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11. You should now be in your member area. At this point check things out.
There is a profile tab, where you can update your profile, add a company to your profile if necessary for some of the ads you post.
There is a User Settings tab where you can set the default city to post to when adding content, select how to get notifications, etc.
12. If you have classified ads running, select the "Manage Classifieds" button, then the "Manage Ads" tab for the list of your current ads.
Please use the "Contact Us" button at the bottom of all pages if you have any questions or come across any errors.
Thank you.

Fort St John, BC – MADD Canada is pleased to announce Caitlyn Dingwell as its new volunteer Community Leader in Fort St John, BC.
In the role, Ms. Dingwell is part of a nation-wide network of volunteers who represent MADD Canada and deliver its message and programs to local communities.
“Our Chapters and Community Leaders undertake a diverse range of activities within their communities to help achieve MADD Canada’s mission of stopping impaired driving and supporting the victims of this violent crime,” said MADD Canada National President Patricia Hynes-Coates. “They truly are the heart and soul of our organization. We are proud to welcome Ms. Dingwell to our amazing and dedicated volunteer team.”
As a new Community Leader, Ms. Dingwell will focus much of her initial efforts around public awareness and education initiatives and building partnerships with stakeholder and community organizations with similar goals of ending impaired driving.
Crashes involving alcohol and/or drugs are the leading criminal cause of death in Canada. On average, approximately 4 people are killed each day in crashes involving alcohol and/or drugs.
“These deaths and injuries are completely preventable. Accidents involving impaired driving can be avoided if people do not get behind the wheel when under the influence of alcohol or drugs,” said Dingwell “I want to be part of the solution and I am confident that Fort St John will be supportive of the effort to stop these senseless tragedies from occurring on our roads and in our community.”
About MADD Canada
MADD Canada (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) is a national, charitable organization that is committed to stopping impaired driving and supporting victims of this violent crime. With volunteer-driven groups in more than 100 communities across Canada, MADD Canada aims to offer support services to victims, heighten awareness of the dangers of impaired driving and save lives and prevent injuries on our roads.
For more information, please contact:
Caitlyn Dingwell at FSJMADD@gmail.com

The FSJ Men's Basketball League will be hosting drop-in basketball at the North Peace High School on Tuesday from 7:30pm to 9:30pm and Sunday from 7pm to 10pm.
Both gyms are available to the group with the main gym used for full court play.
The Men's league will start in October if the numbers are there, otherwise, we will run drop-in until the new year and make decisions about league play in January.
For more information, please email Ben @ fsjpioneer@hotmail.com
The first drop-in day is Sunday, September 9th... see you all there!

Summer time often means holidays, and that means pets can be in different circumstances than they are used to.
If you are going away and taking pets with you, or have to leave your pet in the care of someone at home, please consider the following:
**Your pet MAY run away while you are gone. Keep in contact with your sitter and provide them with the number to the local SPCA. (ours is 785 SPCA or 785-7722)
**If you live out of town or in between locations, provide numbers to ALL the SPCAs or Humane Societies in the area, such as Dawson, Grande Prairie, 100 Mile House, etc. Sometimes people pick up wandering animals and bring them to wherever they are traveling to.
**Keep a CURRENT and CLEAR picture of your pet with you or with your sitter. Digital cameras are great for this... and enable you to e-mail photos to everyone, if your pet goes missing. Multiple angles are a good idea too.
**Make sure you have a current city license and tag on your pet. If you don't, at least have your phone number engraved on a tag, or printed with permanent marker on his collar. Include your area code.
**Consider having your pet tattooed or microchipped (and keep your information current). When pets are brought into shelters, they are routinely scanned and checked for both. Sometimes things are very busy, or we don't have current information associated with the pet, so it is up to owners to check with shelters and not wait for us to call.
**If you find or lose a pet, please call the area SPCA immediately to give us information. Put up posters, post on the Internet (fsjnow.com has a lost and found section in the classifieds), and e-mail everyone in your area that can pass the word (and picture) on! Facebook has a number of Lost/Found pet groups, too.
**At the shelter, we can only hang on to pets for a short time before they become available for adoption, so time is of the essence!
We hope that you will never have the heartache of losing a pet, but if you do, we hope that a happy reunion comes quickly!